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Originally Posted by jaysay
The whole affair sickens me completely
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Sickens a lot of folks ... but I don't think it's fair to single out one man to carry the burden of Britain's share of blame for that whole mess; just as I don't think it's fair to put all the blame for America's actions onto the shoulders of GW. I wouldn't buy a used car from Blair; and I would never think of Bush as anything other than a moron. But come on, Blair isn't parliament; and Bush had the support of Congress. Maybe only 17% of Americans could find Iraq on a map (fortunately, they were all Marines); but the public support was there. B and B cobbled together a causus belli, and hoped that they could find evidence to support it. They didn't, but went ahead and destroyed a country on the basis of threadbare altruism so transparent that it couldn't conceal the greed and the vengence behind it.